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North Shore now, Chicago forever. Corporate fella and family man formerly of the journalism world. Inveterate smartass. Shoulda minored in PoliSci. Nothing is ever over and the sun always rises.

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If the concern here is vote-splitting creating an opening for Fine ... well, there's one candidate who should drop out of the race and it's not Bushra

06.03.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If the concern here is vote-splitting creating an opening for Fine ... Bushra's not the candidate who should drop out

06.03.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My reaction threshold to this kind of thing is sky-high these days but yikes, this is crazily delusional even by 2026 standards

06.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Anthropic CEO Admits, 'We Don't Know If The Models Are Conscious,' As Claude Claims '15% – 20% Probability' Of Awareness Anthropic's latest Claude model assigned itself a 15% – 20% probability of being conscious during internal testing. Claude is the company's large language model that generates text in response to prom...

I'm annoyed but not surprised that the Anthropic guy said kind of the opposite of what Polymarket blasted out:

"We don't know if the models are conscious," Amodei said. "We are not even sure that we know what it would mean for a model to be conscious or whether a model can be conscious."

06.03.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Props to Matt for his willingness to wade into Bluesky's perpetual "SHUT UP AND CATASTROPHIZE WITH ME" maelstrom

06.03.2026 15:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unsurprisingly, the Anthropic guy actually kind of said the opposite. Polymarket, you're so wacky!

"We don't know if the models are conscious," Amodei said. "We are not even sure that we know what it would mean for a model to be conscious or whether a model can be conscious."

06.03.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The former Media Matters - current satirical newspaper owner axis is melting down over that thread

06.03.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is downstream from 35 years of Rush Limbaugh, then Fox News, then Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes building you a garbage bag full of rabid possums for a voter base. Can't defy the orange guy because he's Jesus and/or he fucks

06.03.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think more and more Senate and House Rs are realizing their groyper staffers who play Crusader Kings all night aren't the masters of reality they thought they were

06.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, good thing we're not at war then!

06.03.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They're good wars Brent

06.03.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s never been more Overghazaleh

06.03.2026 06:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On the bright side, she’ll be able to move back downtown

06.03.2026 04:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Very interesting comparison of who spent what over the past two months in #IL09

Take a look at disbursements over $1,000 πŸ‘‡πŸΌ

06.03.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Between this song and β€œGot the Time” Joe knows anxiety

06.03.2026 02:35 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Those three months that Kermit was running around with the Symbionese Liberation Army were wild

06.03.2026 02:33 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Asking for help in a war is something GIRLS do

06.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Woe to those who break up the pity party by explaining how stuff actually works

05.03.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

XRT in Chicago plays both "Teen Angst" and "Low" three times a day but rarely busts out "Happy Birthday to Me" or "Get Off This." SMH

05.03.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh definitely not. After Bovino, Minneapolis and the jet saga she's getting the start of what she deserves. It's just that there's no one else around who's low-key competent who could also satisfy Miller's maximalist aims

05.03.2026 18:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I hope it also gets those commercials off my TV

05.03.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I agree, but if their bench doesn't have anyone who can competently execute Miller's vision then the friction continues and so do the political benefits for the opposition

05.03.2026 18:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think the Gin Blossoms would necessarily disagree with you on this

05.03.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've long thought Jefferson and Washington would be lost in the modern age, Madison and Hamilton would start writing again after a couple of confusing months, and Franklin would be the king of social media in 2 weeks

05.03.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Climb the mountain of conflict!

05.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Everything is the devil to you, mama!

05.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ironically, "the Occult" might be the most wholesome thing that happened on that island

05.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Man, if Biden had announced that his signature legislation also did something else totally unrelated (is squashed by Monty Python foot)

05.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It feels that way now, 10 years ago Silver was still Good, Grim's post basically amounted to "nuh-uh!" and Silver rightly shoved him in a locker for it

05.03.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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05.03.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0